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Welcome to CAMERA!

CAMERA stands for Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis. The aim of this project is to serve the needs of the microbial ecology research community by creating a rich, distinctive data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource that will address many of the unique challenges of metagenomic analysis.

The next update is out ...

The Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton Metagenome data and the GOS Indian Ocean data have been added to the datasets, along with a new direct data download site for expert users.

Read the current release notes (v1.2.6) for more details.


... and the next release is coming

We're adding
  • BLAST improvements and extended features
  • Text and annotation search
  • New site design and features
  • and more ...

Read the pre-release notes for more details.



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Funded by the Moore Foundation


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    For help please e-mail us at camera-help. Or, to get more information or send us comments, please e-mail us at camera-info.

    We also encourage you to contribute to the Discussion Forums and send us your ideas to help us prioritize our development efforts and improve our website.

    - The CAMERA team